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My love fur bears began when I was a little kid. It all started with the bear in the big blue house. If you know this show then your childhood was awesome (Well, without Power Rangers it wasn't so great either).
I still want to hug that big, furry, warm, pawesome, cozy and always happy acting bear.
But if I knew which day I would die, I 'd want to hug a real bear on my last day. Then I would go for the real deal. It would be unbearable if I'd let that chance slip through my fingers.
Well, I would bearly survive a few minutes (Hack, I would probably be dead before getting the chance to hug him), but it's worth the shot. And then my name will be added to the probably short list of idiots heros who tried to hug a wild bear.

And there is a reason not many people would try that. Bears are in real life huge scary animals, and able to crack your skull like it's just a little walnut. They aren't made to hug, they can break your back like it's a twig (not the 1" long thick ones, those are impossible to break). Their use of scratch is so effective that they could beat every gym leader with only that single move.

And this is what /r/bearsdoinghumanthings provides you: pictures/gifs/videos of bears doing human things. And it is awesome. These are the kind of pictures which make you say aww more than the frontpage of r/aww.

But the real question you should ask yourself is: should we be afraid?

Why, you may ask? Well, these signs show that bears are slowly evolving. They are imitating us, they observe us. We think they are just being cute, but slowly they are moving towards global domination. This may sound ridiculous and absurd, but in the far future, when we are all slaves building King Krogar's statue, I will laugh and yell: "I told you so!". It will probably be followed by a rope hitting my back mulitiple times, but it will all be worth it.

But now it's time for the interview.
I had a talk with head moderator /u/Coenn, who shared the same love for bears.

How did this subreddit got created?

Coenn It was created right here! It was more of a joke, until people actually subscribed and started uploading some pretty funny content. Subscribers slowly increased with every frontpaged bear-related post since there was always someone mentioning my subreddit. It exploded lately with this comment, which got a lot of attention.

When and how did your love for bears began?

Coenn When you recognize the human in a bear, you instantly love bears. This happened for me when semi-coincidentally a few bearsdoinghumanthings-kinda posts reached the frontpage in a row (before the subreddit was born).

What do you love about bears doing human things?

Coenn They can be everything if they act human. The scary and enourmously strong animal becomes silly and funny when just placed on an old couch, they are insanely cute when they wave (for some reason a lot of bears wave), etc.

Team Grizzly or team Polar?

Coenn Looking on the content in my subreddit; I have to say Team Grizzly. Polar bears live in a kinda empty enviroment (the objects to make the bear act human in some cases are not present) so most content on the subreddit is from other bears than polar bears.

Looking on just bears; I think I'ma go with polar bears, they seem more cute and furry. Altough they both are extremely deadly..

Could this imitation behaviour lead to a world wide takeover? If so, would you enjoy serving these bears?

Coenn Secretely, this is the true reason I made this subreddit. I know it is coming, it is only a matter of time. Being main moderator on this subreddit, I hope they spare me, or at least make me head-slave. I've got this all figured out.

How is the community like?

Coenn The community is a big plus in this subreddit. Everyone is nice and enthusiastic. This behaviour of the community drives people to upload more content and have friendly and nice discussions in the comments. The only true issue people have with eachother is if there is content uploaded in which the bears are obviously being abused to make them do human stuff (for example; 'dancing' on a hot plate).

Would you like to say anything to future subscribers/current subscribers?

Coenn Surrender to the bears. Join us to maybe have a chance to survive the bear-world-domination.

I hope you enjoyed! And it's March people! Soon spring will come and we will be freed from winter! All hail King Krogar!

Every bear picture/gif comes from /r/bearsdoinghumanthings. This does not only point out that this subreddit provides everything known as awesome but also that i'm too lazy to search for pics and gifs of bears doing human things. Shame on you qweiopasd, shame on you.

And what haunts me, is that in all the faces of all the bears that Treadwell ever filmed, I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature. To me, there is no such thing as a secret world of the bears. And this blank stare speaks only of a half-bored interest in food. But for Timothy Treadwell, this bear was a friend, a savior.